Surface Creation

[Transient1]

Hi all,

Is there a way to replace all solid geometry with surfaces? Basically, I am looking to change a solid model into a model of all shells to work with in a finite element analysis code.

Thanks.

 

[hydromech]

Can you not save the model as iges surface model?

 

[Transient1]

hydromech,

Thanks for the suggestion. It looked promising at first but it doesn't seem to work the way I'd like to. I saved an inventor part file as an .iges file and went through options to save solids as surfaces. However, it still looks like a solid when I open it up (even if I choose the option to import only surfaces). Plus, ANSYS DesignModeler can't import the surfaces. There are two surface options for saving an iges file but both do not work.
DesignModeler has a tool to create a surface at the midplane between two faces. It doesn't look like any kind of similar functionality exists in Inventor.

 

[idkfa]

Derive the part/assembly into a new part as a Work Surface.